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Open Source Making Inroads in Small Businesses

Posted by michael on from the price-sensitive dept.

prostoalex writes "In a story mainly about new OpenOffice release, NewsFactor Network quotes an interesting finding of Jupiter Research analyst: "Open-source productivity suites did "surprisingly well" in the mid-size business market, with the OpenOffice suite alone claiming a share of about 6%. Furthermore, [Joe Wilcox] found that some 19% of small businesses ran Linux on their desktop, and a whopping 26% ran Linux on their servers.""

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  1. I love OpenOffice by Gortbusters.org · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But I must say, that even Ximian's suped up "compatible" version still does wierd things. For example the bullet list in OO is always an outline list (with a funny symbol) in Word. Also Word tables aren't displayed properly in OO.

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  2. whopping? by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Makes perfect sense by LordNimon · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    About five years ago, I set up a linux server at my godfather's business, and it's been running like a tank since then.

    In Soviet Russia, you make the godfather an offer he can't refuse!

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